EP0409780A2 - Machine à affranchir - Google Patents

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EP0409780A2
EP0409780A2 EP90810532A EP90810532A EP0409780A2 EP 0409780 A2 EP0409780 A2 EP 0409780A2 EP 90810532 A EP90810532 A EP 90810532A EP 90810532 A EP90810532 A EP 90810532A EP 0409780 A2 EP0409780 A2 EP 0409780A2
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Werner Haug
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07B—TICKET-ISSUING APPARATUS; FARE-REGISTERING APPARATUS; FRANKING APPARATUS
    • G07B17/00—Franking apparatus
    • G07B17/00185—Details internally of apparatus in a franking system, e.g. franking machine at customer or apparatus at post office
    • G07B17/00362—Calculation or computing within apparatus, e.g. calculation of postage value
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07B—TICKET-ISSUING APPARATUS; FARE-REGISTERING APPARATUS; FRANKING APPARATUS
    • G07B17/00—Franking apparatus
    • G07B17/00185—Details internally of apparatus in a franking system, e.g. franking machine at customer or apparatus at post office
    • G07B17/00193—Constructional details of apparatus in a franking system
    • G07B2017/00233—Housing, e.g. lock or hardened casing
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07B—TICKET-ISSUING APPARATUS; FARE-REGISTERING APPARATUS; FRANKING APPARATUS
    • G07B17/00—Franking apparatus
    • G07B17/00185—Details internally of apparatus in a franking system, e.g. franking machine at customer or apparatus at post office
    • G07B17/00362—Calculation or computing within apparatus, e.g. calculation of postage value
    • G07B2017/00395—Memory organization
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07B—TICKET-ISSUING APPARATUS; FARE-REGISTERING APPARATUS; FRANKING APPARATUS
    • G07B17/00—Franking apparatus
    • G07B17/00185—Details internally of apparatus in a franking system, e.g. franking machine at customer or apparatus at post office
    • G07B17/00362—Calculation or computing within apparatus, e.g. calculation of postage value
    • G07B2017/00395—Memory organization
    • G07B2017/00411—Redundant storage, e.g. back-up of registers
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07B—TICKET-ISSUING APPARATUS; FARE-REGISTERING APPARATUS; FRANKING APPARATUS
    • G07B17/00—Franking apparatus
    • G07B17/00185—Details internally of apparatus in a franking system, e.g. franking machine at customer or apparatus at post office
    • G07B17/00362—Calculation or computing within apparatus, e.g. calculation of postage value
    • G07B2017/00427—Special accounting procedures, e.g. storing special information
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07B—TICKET-ISSUING APPARATUS; FARE-REGISTERING APPARATUS; FRANKING APPARATUS
    • G07B17/00—Franking apparatus
    • G07B17/00459—Details relating to mailpieces in a franking system
    • G07B17/00508—Printing or attaching on mailpieces
    • G07B2017/00516—Details of printing apparatus
    • G07B2017/00524—Printheads
    • G07B2017/00548—Mechanical printhead

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  • the invention relates to a franking machine with electromechanical actuators enclosed in a housing for the franking value setting of type wheels mounted on the print head, electronic value adding units for adding up the value of each franking to a total amount of previous frankings contained in a main memory and with a central electronic control unit (CPU).
  • CPU central electronic control unit
  • Known franking machines of this type have the disadvantage that in the case of repair work for which the housing of the franking machine has to be opened or removed, unauthorized changes of the content of the main memory or those which do not correspond to the consumption of franking values are possible.
  • the invention has for its object to find a franking machine that avoids this disadvantage, so that on the occasion of maintenance work an actuation of the actuators and changes in the amount of value in the main memory does not lead to any permanent change in the amount of value in the main memory that falsifies billing with the post office.
  • the signaling means can consist of a simple electrical open-close switch which is provided on a part of the housing which has to be moved in order to open the housing.
  • the franking machine e.g. their electromechanical drives can be designed, for example, in accordance with US-A-4,520,725 and CH-A-663,848, and it is not necessary to describe them in more detail.
  • a signal transmitter attached to the housing of the franking machine indicates whether it is open or closed.
  • a check is made in accordance with program line 3 at junction field 4 to determine whether a "housing open” flag is not set in the program. If this is the case, this flag is reset and the memory contents in the main memory 6 are replenished by querying the background memory 9 to the state before the housing was opened, since the housing is actually closed.
  • junction 7 When the housing is open, a query is made according to junction 7 as to whether the "Housing open” flag is set. If this is not already the case, it is set in accordance with the function field 8, and in addition the memory contents of the main memory 6 stored in the background memory 9. If the "housing open” flag is already set, it is checked according to the program line 10 at the branches 11 and 12 whether the memory content of the main memory 6 is not zero and whether the setting on the franking head is greater than zero. If the memory content in the main memory 6 is not zero and the setting value on the franking head is greater than zero, these are set to zero according to function field 13. In this case, the corresponding values are stored in the background memory 9, as previously mentioned.
  • Fig. 2 shows in the middle area the distribution of the non-volatile RAM main memory 6 on different contents, i.e. on the total amount of all frankings shown in field 15 and on the various user accounts 16 shown in tabular form, each of which is divided into 100 different sub-accounts that can be debited by the respective user of the franking machine when franking.
  • the allocation to one of the different user accounts takes place using an identification key, e.g. corresponding to US-A-4 788 623.
  • the division into sub-accounts has accounting advantages. Accordingly, when the content of the main memory 6 is stored, it is necessary to store it in the background memory 9 after the same division.
  • the arrows 18, 19 "open lid” and “close lid” illustrate the exchange of the memory contents between the two memories 6, 9 according to the program diagram in FIG. 1.
  • the value adding units 20, 21, 22 required for the different memory contents are shown schematically.
  • the previous value of the account content is called up from the memory 6 and the amount used for franking is then added to this value in order to be subsequently stored again.
  • the functional loops 24, 25, 26 In the functional loop 25 it is also indicated by the functional field 27 that the addition result is deleted when the housing is open.

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EP90810532A 1989-07-21 1990-07-12 Machine à affranchir Expired - Lifetime EP0409780B1 (fr)

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CH2719/89A CH679088A5 (fr) 1989-07-21 1989-07-21
CH2719/89 1989-07-21
US07/754,030 US5307280A (en) 1989-07-21 1991-09-03 Franking machine

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EP0409780A2 true EP0409780A2 (fr) 1991-01-23
EP0409780A3 EP0409780A3 (en) 1992-03-11
EP0409780B1 EP0409780B1 (fr) 1994-06-08

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WO1993005482A1 (fr) * 1991-09-03 1993-03-18 Helmut Lembens Machine a affranchir
US5731980A (en) * 1996-08-23 1998-03-24 Pitney Bowes Inc. Electronic postage meter system having internal accounting system and removable external accounting system
US6050486A (en) * 1996-08-23 2000-04-18 Pitney Bowes Inc. Electronic postage meter system separable printer and accounting arrangement incorporating partition of indicia and accounting information

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WO1993005482A1 (fr) * 1991-09-03 1993-03-18 Helmut Lembens Machine a affranchir
US5731980A (en) * 1996-08-23 1998-03-24 Pitney Bowes Inc. Electronic postage meter system having internal accounting system and removable external accounting system
US6050486A (en) * 1996-08-23 2000-04-18 Pitney Bowes Inc. Electronic postage meter system separable printer and accounting arrangement incorporating partition of indicia and accounting information

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DE59006001D1 (de) 1994-07-14
EP0409780A3 (en) 1992-03-11
ATE107059T1 (de) 1994-06-15
US5307280A (en) 1994-04-26
CH679088A5 (fr) 1991-12-13

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